2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 know, they never told me about the laws but what they did was teach me how to be respectful – not only of the land we’re on but the landowners that we had to pass through their property often times and so, you know, I’ve been practicing this all my life and in Waianae, where I’m from – a lot of the landowners that know that if I’m in the valley there or I’m on their property they know that I’m a very respectful person so I don’t get the kind of problems that a lot of the hunters get, I guess, so from then I just – when you sit around you hearing people talk about stuff and so in 1994 I was up at Tantalus and a game warden was coming up and I decided not to run because I heard that, you know, my mother always used to tell me learn the law, right, so I heard people talking about the state constitution and I said, well, OK, so I going try ‘em – so that day when the game warden went stop me he told me, you know, I couldn’t read the sign and the sign, of course, said no hunting and permission and all of this stuff, but, ah, so, finally, you know, he tell me, well, you know, you’re not supposed to be hunting and I told him but I’m not hunting and I said something to him that changed my life and so today that’s why I’m doing it now. And all I told him was that I wasn’t hunting I was gonna come up here and gather and my friends that were with me – we’re gonna come up here and gather pork. And from 1994 to today – I have never had a hunting license. I exercise that right. My brother was a fisherman does not pay the launch ramp fees because of the access that we’re allowed, yeah, and it’s not only to the mountain it’s to the ocean as well. So from then on I just try to show – tell all the hunters that I know and I’m well respected in my community – all the hunters know that I only teach good and I talk about good and respect so, that’s where I stand today. TL: I appreciate that. Anybody else have any questions otherwise we’re gonna move on with Mr. Hoeflinger and I do appreciate James. Stick around for – till the end of the meeting, if you could. JM: And thank you folks very much for allowing me to share. Mahalo. DK: My name is Darren Kunewa. I’m a concerned grandfather and uncle. See, I have nephews and that who fish and hunt, you know, this is out South Point – and it’s up in Volcano – Kau and this is just recently, like, you know, weeks, months – and if we – if we get cut off of all these – this is how they feed their family, you know, without this, you know, the food is so expensive in the store so what they do is go out and they got to go feed their families so what they do they hunt and they fish. Yeah, and so when I seen all this and when my cousin came here from the island I wasn’t supposed to be here and then when I came here and I see and I’m worried now, you know, cause my nephew them is what they do is just hunt and fish and my family – my grandfather died in the ocean fishing – from 20